‘Proper’ Destination Signage Is needed for Blyth

 

Councillor Kath Nisbet, the Town and County Councillor for Croft Ward which covers much of the Town Centre of Blyth was very pleased with the news from Parliament just before it closed for its very long Easter break that 7000 brand new offshore windmills was the prime choice to kick start the replacement UK’s energy revolution using renewable energy.

With the Port of Blyth and its now world famous blade turbine testing centre sitting in Croft Ward, ‘ORE Catapult’ and a newly proposed larger offshore industry training centre about to be built in the Towns South Harbour, Councillor Nisbet welcomes the news from Parliament. “It's great that the growth of this much needed renewable energy program for offshore windmills will energise further the work of companies based in the River Blyth basin and hopefully lift the number of local people employed in this industry, which will benefit our Town Centre greatly.”

She also said:” I am not from a seafaring background but looking at our Town’s history and charts in the Library, Blyth appears to be a very prominent eastern seaboard port that sailors can find quite easily which offers shelter from storms as well as its current import, export and business uses.”

“Blyth, Northumberland’s largest Town by far must be one of the few Towns with a very popular theatre, The Phoenix, along with a well known non-league football club Blyth Spartans which doesn’t have enough signage for its Town Centre let alone brown signs for our attractions other than the beach area. This growth of powerful companies entering the world energy markets surrounding the River Blyth Estuary should be a catalyst for putting Blyth on the signage map of Britain”.

"That said I also believe, now that major industry is planned to be sited in the river Blyth estuary that the County Council, businesses and the Town and Parish Council's in this area need to campaign hard to have Blyth's travel status increased and it become a 'destination by road' and at least gain equal status with places like Alnwick, Ashington, Berwick, Morpeth and Seahouses gaining signage not just from our beach to the town centre but from the western bypass, the  A1 in Northumberland and the A19 corridor."